Outdoor Media Association paid $5,000 to cyber hacker to retrieve lost data

The Outdoor Media Association paid $5,000 in the form of bitcoin, to retrieve more than 60 weeks of data, after the company experienced a cyber attack last month.

In a blog on the OMA website, chief executive of the association Charmaine Moldrich, has offered tips to avoid being cyber hacked, after the company was attacked at 10:25pm several weeks ago.

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